>> My father (a maths teacher) told me life is about to get the optimal
>> solution and not necessary the best solution. Sometime a suboptimal
>> solution is also accepted as the optimal solution at that time.
> 
> Nice one!
> I would probably classify it as "Chinese Wisdom" since I'm sure I 
> already saw it somewhere :)

I would word it a bit differently, but the essence is probably the same: 
it is always about finding the best solution, but the problem is finding 
  the right scale to judge solutions. And time to find the solution (or 
even the scale!) can be a (negative) part of the judgment.

Wouter van Ooijen

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